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Feather

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

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Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conjoin 76% connected

To join together; to unite.

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Grow 76% connected

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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Join 76% connected

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Paddle 76% connected

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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Produce 76% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Rotation 76% connected

The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a dista…

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Row 76% connected

Rough; stern; angry.

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Feathery 74% connected

Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Feathery 74% connected

Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fledge 74% connected

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fledge 74% connected

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Containing whole 2

Row 70% connected

Rough; stern; angry.

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Rowing 70% connected

of Row

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Synonym 2

Fledge 92% connected

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Square 92% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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